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share of her csresses, as he hoped and
yelped frantically about her.
The expression of Amy's face often
alternated between dimpled mischief end
mild seriousness.
eyes, Melanie," said the invalid from
his couch, while his eyes glistened.
"Good Amy-kind little soul-has acted
as usual the part of-of sister to me and
to Dick. | know not what we should do
without her"
And as he spoke he turned restlessly on
the couch where he lay nearly all day,
with his pain and repining, his past
brilliant memories and thoughts of what
might have been.
The waters of great bitterness often
overlooked his heart; but complaints
we're rare with him, while his expressions
of gratitude for kindness, and the apol-
ogis s for trouble given, were touching,
| frequent and earnest.
Open air sports, like balls and dancing,
were out of the scheme of his life now !;
vet he was sometimes taken in his wheel
chair to tennis and garden parties st
Stokencross and elsewhere. And how at
| times he loathed them, To see little
Amy Brepdon in her tennis costume,
looking so pretty and piquante, so lissom
and active in figure, with "Tom, Dick
and Harry" lowering in admiration about
her, while he sat In his invalid chair SO
d-ned perambulatorn he thought it,
and looked enviouslY, hopelessly and
helplessly on.
A silent love for Amy was his sheet
anchor in life now: of that nothing
could rob him so long as it was silent
and concealed in his own troubled breast
To speak of 1t might scare the girl with
terror, perhaps with dislike rather than
pity for MIN, and so end an intimacy that
was full of vague delight to him.
Yet what contrast they were. In ONE
respects
Amy, the type of youth, and Hebe.like
in her health, bloom, and roundness Of
limb; her eyes, clear, bright, and spark
ling; her little figure superb and elastic,
her mere life a Joy to her,
He, with fingers long, and lean anc
blanched now; his fair dark acquiline
features pinched, pale, and worn with the
frequent pain that rendered his splendid
hazel eyes unnaturally large and keenly
bright, creating for him, in all who knew
his sad story, piteous attraction, t
woman especially. His dark, SILKY nous
additional expression to his uncommon.
fine face.
Thus Melanie's heart often grew SAL
l and sore as she watched the two, for SIT
! dearly loved her lame but helpless sailor
brother.
And yet amid the dreamy sense Of hap
piness Amy's society gave hiTa, he bull
, no castles in the air-he could not
: "Whst earthly castles ever tower up /
form so maiestic, IN curve and spire
r dome and battlements so grand and glor
Gus, as those ethereal ones OF our oW
!, architecture? Earth, sky and sea furnis
: no colors so bright IS those OF which GU
t castles shine in hopes sunlight. But
u Reginald Telbot's dreams Of love, no sue
S castles rose, for he loved in silence, will
out hope, without future.
he could only anticipate the agony
seeing her the bride Of another, for Bird
of mis- she could never, never be.
he had learned to love her when ne hT!
came back from the Indian seas, and g
newed the friendship that began, as'f
was wont to say, "when she wore hs
n back hair in two tails, white piAafol
and strap shoes, and sat in highschal
E, aud love and marriage were myths con
d pared to new doll and more pudding
|! And now, since he mad returned from II
q fatal Soudan, he struggled with the ne1
IN er-born joy-the wild and thrilling q
g light that had taken possession ORR
q heart-thrilIine everv nerve OF his boz
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